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Subject: Re: Kramink loses again Did he ever!

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 10:03:36 05/22/05

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On May 22, 2005 at 12:04:42, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On May 22, 2005 at 10:51:17, Dom Leste wrote:
>
>>Hopefully someone gives Kramink a good flogging for the next world champs cause
>>his playing terrible!
>>
>>
>>[Event "Mtel-Masters"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "2005.05.22"]
>>[Round "?"]
>>[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
>>[Black "Topalov, Veselin"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>[ECO "B80"]
>>[Annotator "Robot 1"]
>>[PlyCount "68"]
>>[EventDate "2005.??.??"]
>>
>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. f3 b5 8. Qd2
>>b4 9. Nce2 e5 10. Nb3 Nc6 11. c4 Be7 12. Ng3 g6 13. Bd3 Nd7 14. Rd1 O-O 15. Qf2
>>a5 16. O-O a4 17. Nc1 Nc5 18. Bb1 Qc7 19. Nce2 Be6 20. Bh6 Rfe8 21. Nf5 Bxc4
>>22. Ne3 Ba6 23. f4 exf4 24. Bxf4 Ne5 25. Nd5 Qa7 26. Bxe5 dxe5 27. Kh1 Bg5 28.
>>Nxb4 Bc4 29. Rfe1 Qb7 30. Nd5 Qxb2 31. Nc7 31.Ne6 32. Nxe8 Rxe8 33. Rf1 Rf8 34.
>>Nc1 Qxb1 0-1
>
>Nc1??,looks like the biggest blunder in his entire career!
>
>This is his worst tournament as well, and two games that he blundered in, the
>latter being quite an embarrassment!

A 40% score in a tournament with an average rating of about 2740 is not really a
bad tournament.

>
>If he hadn't dodged Kasparov for four years, I'd feel sorry for him.
>Instead it proves that he was fortunate to win that match in 2000...he was in
>form and well prepared.
>
>Now...what can I say?



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